By Peter Koch For the first thirty-five years of my life, I lived a somewhat normal life—if you could call anything “normal” in Germany during the Hitler regime and after the war. My parents had an exceptionally good marriage and had always been a shining example to my two younger sisters and me....
By Joseph Sheftick Dr. Joseph Sheftick, a practicing chiropractor, joined our church in the United States in 1968 at the age of 33. His early work for the movement included organizing a mobile witnessing team on a bus, which was likely the inspiration for True Father to initiate IOWC. Dr. Sheftick passed...
Stories from my years with the True Family at Belvedere and East Garden Part 3 By Joe Kinney Joe Kinney was the maintenance man at East Garden from June 1974 until February 1978. In this series of three (of which this is the third), Mr. Kinney shares his personal experiences with...
Stories from my years with the True Family at Belvedere and East Garden Part 2 By Joe Kinney I was the maintenance man at East Garden from June 74 until Feb 78, and was the only male staff member to live in the same house with True Parents. Beyond just the...
Stories from my years with the True Family at Belvedere and East Garden By Joe Kinney I was very fortunate to spend most of my first five years in the church close to True Parents. I saw Father for the first time at 10:00 a.m. on March 1, 1973 at the...
By Park Kyung-do Park Kyung-do met Father earlier than almost anyone else in our movement outside of Father’s own family–before Mother was born and eight years before Rev. Kim Won-pil joined Father in Pyongyang. He shares some of his earliest memories of Father. It was in 1938, when I was in...
By Brigitte Meister Testimony of Brigitte Meister, Early Austrian Member Vienna Brigitte Meister is a little lady with a big heart, who embodies the spirit of the early days that True Mother has encouraged us to rediscover. Brigitte joined on the 26th of April 1967, in Vienna, Austria. She has given...
By Mr. Osami Kuboki The International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVOC) was founded in early 1968, first in Korea and then in Japan. In the following years, members in Korea and Japan invested much to counter the very real communist threat in their respective countries. In September 1970, the World Anti-communist...
By Emilie Steberl First missionary to the communist Eastern bloc, Czechoslovakia, 1968-1970 This letter was written at the beginning of April 1969, during True Parents’ second world tour by Emilie Steberl, who was the first missionary to the Eastern European communist bloc. Emilie had entered Czechoslovakia in October 1968. From time to time...
By June Darby-Perrin The following testimony comes from our sister who first heard the Principle in Rome in August 1966. She relates several personal encounters with Father and Mother during the early years of the movement in the West. My father had had a revelation, around 1954 when I was about twelve or...
Inauguration of IAPP Nicaragua
17 Jul, 2017
Italy: “Let’s liberate our Hearts” Seminar
17 Jul, 2017
The Italian Movement at a Turning Point
17 Jul, 2017
WFWP International President Visiting Vienna
17 Jul, 2017
